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 | Global Market Overview: Improving economic data over the past few days encourage a shift into plays on global growth, with stocks and metals prices moving higher as currencies remain relatively stable |
| Asian stocks touched one-month highs on Monday and European bourses extended last week\'s rally, as investors bet a recent run of better-than-expected economic data meant the world was not going to slide back into recession. |
| Asian shares are higher as better-than-expected US jobs data ease concerns about the global economic recovery, though investors are cautious ahead of the US market holiday |
| AP - Stocks in Asia nudged higher in early trade Monday, after shares in the U.S. rose last week on the back of strong jobs data. |
| Cash: 71.0% (v 71.0% last week) Long: 20.7% (v 20.7%) Short: 8.3% (v 8.3%) This data is updated weekly and can be found on \'Performance/Portfolio\' menu tab on thewebsite. As always the total gain/loss (both dollars and percentages) only apply to the open portion of. |
| AP - With rising fears of a prolonged recession and stomach-churning moves in the stock market, corporate bond markets have performed so well this year they look like they\'re part of a parallel universe. |
| The Spanish banking group is set to launch a recruitment drive that could see it hire 6,000 people as it presses ahead with UK expansion |
| Cross-border lending by banks rose at the start of this year for the first time since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in a sign that the reversal of financial globalisation seen in the past two years is coming to an end |
| Oracle?s board will meet within days to vote on a deal to bring Mark Hurd to the company in a top role, marking a rapid corporate rehabilitation for the ousted Hewlett-Packard chief executive |
| Foxconn Technology Group expects its average annual growth to drop by half over the coming 10 years compared with the past decade in a sign that the maturing technology industry cannot sustain its aggressive pace of expansion |
| Sir John Bond is preparing to step down as Vodafone?s chairman following renewed shareholder unrest about the mobile group?s strategy and acquisitions |
| Google?s technological lead over Baidu has eroded, the company?s former China head has said, highlighting the increasing challenges western internet companies face in the world?s most populous internet market |
| President is to ask Congress to expand and make permanent a tax credit for research and development to boost a flagging economic recovery |
| ?No one will escape? tighter financial supervision in the European Union in the future, warned the bloc?s Internal Market Commissioner, even as he attempted to reassure the industry to ?remain calm? over the new regulatory regime |
| Basque separatist group says it has ceased ?armed attacks? and is ready to negotiate and take part in democracy to achieve independence for the Basque country that straddles the French-Spanish border |
| Stocks started September with a bang as investors cheered a rare dose of good economic news but investors may need to buckle in for the coming week: It\'s a holiday-shortened week with little on the docket to set the tone. |
| Rosneft executive Eduard Khudainatov has been picked by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to replace Sergei Bogdanchikov as head of the country?s top oil producer, |
| The eurozone debt crisis is about to enter a dangerous phase as governments prepare to step up borrowing in the capital markets to fund their faltering economies |
| South Korea?s foreign minister has offered to resign over nepotism allegations involving his daughter, dealing a fresh blow to the government of President Lee Myung-bak |
| Naoto Kan, Japan\'s prime minister, is locked in an extremely close race with ruling Democratic party challenger Ichiro Ozawa, according to polls of the party members that will decide this month?s DPJ leadership election |
| AFP - Wall Street heads into next week with strong tailwind from recent days\' rally and brighter outlook as traders keenly await President Barack Obama to unveil new plans for boosting the shaky US economy. |
| Turkey and the United States are ?not just allies? but ?good friends?, the US military?s top commander said after a visit to Ankara aimed at papering over the cracks in an increasingly fractious relationship |
| A newly merged British Airways and Iberia would be ?very interested? in investing in an Indian airline, BA chief Willie Walsh said on Saturday as he announced a groundbreaking code-share deal with India?s Kingfisher Airlines |
| AP - The Securities and Exchange Commission has reached a settlement in its civil lawsuit against former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio. |
| Stocks jumped and commodities rose on Friday after data showing fewer U.S. job losses than expected reinforced other reports this week to ease fears the American economy is on the cusp of a new recession. |
| The company faces the first broad antitrust probe of its core search business, in its latest fight to contain legal challenges prompted by its spreading influence on online life |
| Friedman Industries doubles its quarterly dividend to eight cents per share. |
| U.S. markets lift higher on positive manufacturing, consumer confidence and jobs reports. Burger King goes private again. |
| Also, Celldex Therapeutics plunges 30% to a new 52-week low after Pfizer pulls back from cancer vaccine project. |
| All the major indexes were solidly higher as investors drew optimism from a better than expected jobs report. |
| Lloyd?s of London is to test whether Apple iPads could replace the traditional paper slips containing all the information on bespoke policies sold at the 300-year-old insurance market |
| Staffing and outsourcing services stocks gain on Friday with luxury stocks. |
| Stocks jumped and commodities rallied on Friday after data showed U.S. job losses were less than expected in August, the second major report this week to ease fears the American economy may slip back into recession. |
| In 2002, Ben Bernanke deemed deflation such a threat that he referred to Milton Friedman?s notion of handing out cash to stop falling prices |
| In afternoon trading Friday, makers of diagnostic substances were trailing the overall market. |
| More market professionals are asking if the brutal de-rating suffered by equities during the past decade means the cult of equity is dying |
| Stocks jumped and commodities rallied on Friday after data showed U.S. job losses were less than expected in August, the second major report this week to ease fears the American economy may slip back into recession. |
| AP - SEPTEMBER RALLY: The stock market had its first winning week in a month after better news on employment and manufacturing lifted shares. |
| Finisar posts a 62% jump in revenue and the stock gets busy. |
| AP - The stock market had its first winning week in a month after news on the economy started getting better. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 128 points Friday, its fourth straight day of gains. Even after its four-day run, which added 438 points to the Dow, the index is still 6.8 percent below its April high. |
| Wall Street closed a stellar week on Friday after recent economic data, including a stronger-than-expected labor market report, bolstered optimism that the economy would not fall back into recession. |
| Also, aerospace outfit Esterline reports a 23% pop in profit |
| Omnicare takes Walgreen\'s long-term care pharmacy business, Walgreen gets Omnicare\'s home infusion business. |
| The broad S&P 500 index closed its best week in eight on Friday after recent economic data, including a stronger-than-expected labor market report, bolstered optimism that the economy would not fall back into recession. |
| The video game maker blows past analysts\' expectations and the stock surges. |
| Disney and Time Warner Cable strike a deal for ABC, ESPN, and Disney channels. |
| Also, Citigroup raises its price target on Burger King Holdings to $24, matching the buyout price. |
| Barclays lowers its price targets on shares of both Lexmark and Xerox. |
| Wall Street was set to close its best week in six on Friday after economic data, including a stronger-than-expected labor market report, helped soothe fears the economy could fall back into recession. |
| European shares hit a three-week closing high on Friday and posted their biggest weekly gain in about 8 weeks as investors grabbed equities after figures showed that U.S. employment declined far less than expected in August. |
